Architectural
Styles

Buildings
are used for many purposes and are therefore classified into houses,
stores, churches,
governmental, and industrial. We will only concern ourselves with single-family
residential and
commercial structures, which are commonly found in Eau Claire and in the
western Midwest. Buildings are classified into distinctive
styles:Residential
Styles Commercial StylesStudy each so that you can recognize them when you are walking in
Eau Claire and other U.S.
cities. A list of references is provided. Look at other architectural photos at ArchNet.

You have two ways to search for particular building
(residential and commercial)
styles:1) Click on the letter to find an architectural
style.
2) To find specific styles by name, decade,
number of stories, and building materials, use
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The
great variety of house styles can be grouped by decades using the number of
stories. Multiple and single stories houses were built in each
decade, but certain heights predominated, as shown in the graph. But less
common height types were also built: for
example, one-story two-pen houses were built in the 1880s-1890s; two-story Art Deco houses were built in the 1930s;
and one-story houses with huge roofs were built in the 2000s.
Some of the typical house styles for each of the heights are listed.

2.5 stories

2 stories

1.5 stories

1 story

Decades

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

High Styles

Greek
Revival
Queen Anne
Italianate

Revival
styles:
French Provincial
Normandy
Spanish
Tudor

Arts & Craft
Bungalow

Cape Cod

Early Ranch

Ranch
Split-Level

Shed
New England Colonial(energy crisis)

Neo-Eclectic
styles

Common Styles

Upright & Wing

Cubic

smaller versions of revival styles

smaller, simpler versions of the above

simpler, cheaper versions of the above styles

ordinary versions of Neo-Eclectic
styles

Created
by Ingolf
Vogeler on 18 April 1997;
last revised on
10 April 2009.